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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on May 22, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):491-506; doi:10.1093/es/khn043
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Slavery

Robin L. Einhorn

ROBIN L. EINHORN is a history professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Contact information: Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 3229 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720–2550. E-mail: einhorn{at}berkeley.edu.

The history of slavery cannot be separated from the history of business in the United States, especially in the context of the relationship between public power and individual property rights. This essay suggests that the American devotion to "sacred" property rights stems more from the vulnerability of slaveholding elites than to a political heritage of protection for the "common man."


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